
Directing
Nina Shorina
Born 1943-03-10 · Moscow, RSFSR [now Russia]
Acting credits
10.0The action takes place during the Second World War in the battle zone over the Black Sea coast. Soviet sailors track down an enemy submarine. Meanwhile, the commander of the Sea Hunter, along with one of the sailors, is not returning from intelligence. Young patriots Katya and Lida report to the boat about the signal of unknown friends who noticed a submarine. Thanks to this, Soviet sailors drown an enemy boat, and the brave reconnaissance Katya, who knows the mountain paths of the coast well, discovers a Sea Hunter commander and a seriously wounded sailor in one of the caves ..
Marine Hunter
1954
5.0Oleg Vidov — one of the Soviet Union's most beloved actors — was persecuted, blacklisted and pushed to the breaking point before escaping to the West and achieving the American dream.
Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story
2021
In the 1920s, a young Komsomol member is elected as a shepherd in a farmstead on the Don River. After the kulaks kill the chairman of the executive committee in revenge, the shepherd writes to a newspaper about it.
The Shepherd
1958
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Ask Your Heart
1965
5.6Alexey and Valentina met in the tourist camp on Seliger, and after two weeks they celebrated their wedding. Returning to the family, the young couple faced the first difficulties. Both parents didn't like the willfulness of the young - and there were problems with housing. They started a constant quarrels. The young soon agreed that their wedding was premature ...
The First Date
1960
8.5A story about a group of children spending their summer vacation in the village.
Lights on the River
1953
NRThe whole film has three, (but in reality, two main) characters. Most of the action takes place in a country house, home to the pair. She - a Japanese translator, he - a man without a definite occupation, lover of the texts of Nietzsche (which he reads fluently in its original language) and St. Augustine (who is quoted in Latin). They are Moscow intelligentsia who have emigrating to their own cultural space. A couple so different that it is difficult to understand what keeps them together. It seems they live together, not because of, but rather in spite of everything that is happening (or rather, not happening) between them.
Translations from the East
1999
5.4High school students Ksenya and Boris are in love but all the world is against them.
But What If This Is Love?
1961
NRAfter finishing school in their native village, Tolyasha (Igor Pushkarev) and Valya take exams to enter the pedagogical institute, but both fail. They return to their Green Shores. Valya works on a poultry farm and soon becomes a famous poultry farmer, and Tolyasha works as a driver. After a series of misunderstandings, their personal relationships improve...
A Head on One's Shoulders
1961
8.0About the early years of the life of the philosopher and writer Alexander Herzen, about his first and unrequited love, about the throwing of youth and growing up of a young critic and revolutioner. According to his father, he comes from an ancient Russian family, and his mother was a simple German woman. As an illegitimate son, he was not given the name of his father, Yakovlev. In his youth, he was fond of the ideas of freedom, for which it is not a pity to fight, which even then was close to the ideals of the revolution...
The Old House
1970
6.0Alter Ego (1989) is a surreal collage of puppets, actors, masks, and inanimate object, to reach deep into the artist’s soul.
Alter Ego
1989
Behind the camera
7.0The main idea of film can be expressed in a proverb: together it is cramped and separately it is boring.
Poodle
1985
5.9Dream (1988) is a somnambulist short about dreams taking over reality and rendering protagonists inactive.
Dream
1988
5.9Dream (1988) is a somnambulist short about dreams taking over reality and rendering protagonists inactive.
Dream
1988
5.9The residents of a building have found novel ways to enter and exit as their front door is broken. However, once the door is repaired they continue to avoid the door.
The Door
1986
NR"About Buka" by animator Nina Shorina, famous for "The Door". In Russian, no subtitles.
About Buka
1984
7.5The system of curve mirrors ugly deforming human features. We laugh, seeing the reflection, not noticing that the ugliness becomes our essence.
The Room of Laughter
1991
7.5The system of curve mirrors ugly deforming human features. We laugh, seeing the reflection, not noticing that the ugliness becomes our essence.
The Room of Laughter
1991
NRFriedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche never went to Russia – yet he was always fascinated by this mysterious country and wanted to visit it. This film gives him the possibility to do so after all. However, Nietzsche doesn’t arrive in 19th century Russia, but in a modern country which has been trying for years to create the civilization described by Nietzsche 150 years ago.
Nietzsche in Russia
2008
NRFriedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche never went to Russia – yet he was always fascinated by this mysterious country and wanted to visit it. This film gives him the possibility to do so after all. However, Nietzsche doesn’t arrive in 19th century Russia, but in a modern country which has been trying for years to create the civilization described by Nietzsche 150 years ago.
Nietzsche in Russia
2008
Tale about a dreamer who was very tall and disturbed everyone. But one day his music awakened a sense of beauty in the townspeople.
The Tale of the Very Tall Man
1983
NRThe whole film has three, (but in reality, two main) characters. Most of the action takes place in a country house, home to the pair. She - a Japanese translator, he - a man without a definite occupation, lover of the texts of Nietzsche (which he reads fluently in its original language) and St. Augustine (who is quoted in Latin). They are Moscow intelligentsia who have emigrating to their own cultural space. A couple so different that it is difficult to understand what keeps them together. It seems they live together, not because of, but rather in spite of everything that is happening (or rather, not happening) between them.
Translations from the East
1999
NRA statue of immense beauty has to come to life, and all wish to win her heart. But she is a peri, a Persian spirit of seraphic beauty, who should belong to none.
Perfect Peri
1982
NRBased on Anton Chekhov's short story "Ward No. 6" and other works.
The Draught
1993
NRBased on Anton Chekhov's short story "Ward No. 6" and other works.
The Draught
1993
Based on a fairy tale by D. Nagishkin, written on the basis of Far Eastern folklore.
Unkind Lado
1981
5.4Stop motion animation. Part 3 in a series. A comet is on a collision course with Earth. The oceans have dried up, and Moomintroll and friends need to make their way through raging sandstorms to get home to their parents.
Moomintroll and the Comet: The Way Home
1978
5.2Stop-motion animation. A comet is hurtling towards Earth. Moomintroll and friends travel to a mountaintop observatory to investigate.
Moomintroll and the Comet
1978
NRAn educational cartoon designed to introduce foreign audiences to the cultural, technical, and scientific achievements of the Soviet Union.
A Window into the Soviet Union
1968
6.0Alter Ego (1989) is a surreal collage of puppets, actors, masks, and inanimate object, to reach deep into the artist’s soul.
Alter Ego
1989
6.0Alter Ego (1989) is a surreal collage of puppets, actors, masks, and inanimate object, to reach deep into the artist’s soul.
Alter Ego
1989
NRAbout a bear cub who wanted to become a circus star, but was late for the circus express train because he violated traffic rules.
Take Your Time
1972
NRVolume 4 (1986-1991): "Door", "Boy Is a Boy", "Liberated Don Quixote", "Martinko", "Big Underground Ball", "Cat and Clown", "Dream", "Kele", "Alter Ego", "Girlfriend", "Croak x Croak", "Cat and Company".
Masters of Russian Animation - Volume 4
2000